Aebutia gens
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Aebutia was an ancient Roman gens containing two families, the names of which are Carus and Elva. The former was plebeian, tha latter patrician; but the gens was originally patrician. "Cornicen" does not seem to have been a family name, but only a surname given to Postumus Aebutius Elva, who was consul in 442 BC. This gens was distinguished in the early ages, but from the time of the above mentioned Aebutius Elva, no patrician member of it held any curule office until the praetorship of Marcus Aebutius Elva in 176 BC.[1]
It is doubtful to which of the family P. Aebutius belonged, who disclosed to the consul the existence of the Bacchanalia at Rome and was rewarded by the senate in consequence in 186 BC.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Smith, William (1867), “Aebutia”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, pp. 23
- ^ Livy, xxxix. 9, 11, 19
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
